by Tao Lin | Other, Psychedelics
Last week in this column, I interviewed Terence McKenna’s daughter, Klea. This week, I’ve interviewed Terence’s son, Finn, who was born in 1978. I talked to Finn on the phone for about an hour and a half-the longest I’ve talked to anyone on the...
by Tao Lin | Other, Psychedelics
Terence McKenna viewed cannabis, psilocybin, DMT, LSD, and other psychedelics as “catalysts of intellectual dissent.” He wrote in The Archaic Revival (1991) that his assumption about psychedelics had always been that they were illegal “not because it troubles anyone...
by Tao Lin | Psilocybin, Psychedelics
Psilocybin is a psychedelic tryptamine compound found in ~200 types of mushrooms worldwide. In a 1998 workshop titled “In The Valley of Novelty,” Terence McKenna called it “the phosphorylated form of DMT,” and observed that both psilocybin and DMT “particularly seem...
by Tao Lin | DMT, DMT Entities, Psychedelics
N,N-dimethyltryptamine, or DMT, is an illegal, psychedelic tryptamine compound found in the human body and at least ~60 species of plants worldwide. Rick Strassman, MD, described it as “the first endogenous human psychedelic” in DMT: The Spirit Molecule (2000), and in...